The Tune and Also the Words

1. Alexander Iolas Gallery, Paris, by 1964; sold to the Hanover Gallery, London, by 1969. Sold by E. Hammer Gallery, Paris, to the Pace Gallery, New York, Oct. 1973 [Kanoi Keith of the Pace Gallery, New York, in a phone conversation of August 24, 1995]; sold, Museum of Contemporary Art Third Benefit Auction, Chicago, Nov. 15, 1975, lot 43, to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Alexander Iolas Gallery, "Magritte: Le Sens Propre," 1964, cat. 38.
• Possibly New York, Alexander Iolas Gallery, "Magritte: Le Sens Propre," 1965, no cat.
• London, Hanover Gallery, "Poetic Image," 1969, n.p. (ill.).
• London, Hanover Gallery, "Pen, Pencil, and Paper," 1970, n.p. (ill.).
• Basel, Galerie Beyeler, "Surréalisme et Peinture," 1974, cat. 46.
• Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Words at LIberty," 1977, pp. 8 (ill.), 17.
• Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections," 1984–1985, fig. 1, pp. 85, 172.
• Art Institute of Chicago, "A Tribute to Edwin A. Bergman (1917–1986): Selections from the Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection," 1986, pamphlet no. 34.
• Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Toward the Future: Contemporary Art in Context," 1990, pamphlet.

• Paul Nougé, "Pour Illustrer Magritte," Le Faiit Accompli 34-35 (Apr. 1970), n.p. (ill.).
• Suzi Gablik, Magritte (Greenwich, Conn., 1971), pp. 128, 201, pl. 111.
• A.M. Hammacher, René Magritte (New York, 1973), p. 33, fig. 35.
• Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco (editor), Surrealismo, Omaggio a André Breton, exh. cat. (Rome, 1976), p. 156 (ill.).
• Robert Short, Dada and Surrealism (London, 1980), p. 110, fig. 105.
• Petra von Morstein, "Magritte: Artistic and Conceptual Representations," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 41:4 (1983), pp. 372-73.
• Laurie Edson, "Disrupting Conventions: Verbal-Visual Objects in Francis Ponge and René Magritte," L'Esprit Créateur 24:2 (Summer 1984), PP. 28-29.
• Laurie Edson, "Confronting the Signs: Words, Images, and the Reader-Spectator," Dada/Surrealism 13 (1984), p. 91.
• René Magritte, Lettres à André Bosmans, 1958-1967, edited by Francine Perceval (Brussels, 1990), pp. 392, 394.
• Magritte Catalogue, vol. 3 (1993), p. 192, no. 1570; vol. 4 (1994), p. 277, no. 1570 (ill.).
• Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pp. 175–77, cat. 87 (color ill.).

La durée poignardée (Time Transfixed)

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The Banquet

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On the Threshold of Liberty

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Homesickness

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The Eye

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Untitled (Woman-Bottle)

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The Balcony

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The White Race

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